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Different Deployments of Attentional Breadth Selectively Predict UFOV Task Performance in Older Adults
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Nicholas J. Wyche; Mark Edwards; Stephanie C. Goodhew – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
The Useful Field of View task (UFOV) is a strong and reliable predictor of crash risk in older drivers. However, while the functional domain of attention is clearly implicated in UFOV performance, the potential role of one specific attentional process remains unclear: attentional breadth (the spatial extent of the attended region around the point…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Older Adults, Attention Control, Risk
Do Concerns about COVID-19 Impair Sustained Attention?
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Jun, Jihyang; Toh, Yi Ni; Sisk, Caitlin A.; Remington, Roger W.; Lee, Vanessa G. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has considerably heightened health and financial concerns for many individuals. Similar concerns, such as those associated with poverty, impair performance on cognitive control tasks. If ongoing concerns about COVID-19 substantially increase the tendency to mind wander in tasks requiring sustained…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Attention Span, Young Adults
Incidental Exposure to Hedonic and Healthy Food Features Affects Food Preferences One Day Later
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Dutriaux, Léo; Papies, Esther K.; Fallon, Jennifer; Garcia-Marques, Leonel; Barsalou, Lawrence W. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
Memories acquired incidentally from exposure to food information in the environment may often become active to later affect food preferences. Because conscious use of these memories is not requested or required, these incidental learning effects constitute a form of indirect memory. In an experiment using a novel food preference paradigm (n =…
Descriptors: Food, Eating Habits, Health Behavior, Preferences
Impact of Active and Latent Concerns about COVID-19 on Attention
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Sisk, Caitlin A.; Toh, Yi Ni; Jun, Jihyang; Remington, Roger W.; Lee, Vanessa G. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
The interactions between emotion and attention are complex due to the multifaceted nature of attention. Adding to this complexity, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the emotional landscape, broadly heightening health and financial concerns. Can the heightened concerns about COVID-19 impair one or more of the components of attention? To explore the…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Attention Control, Emotional Response
The Functional Relevance of Visuospatial Processing Speed across the Lifespan
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Aul, Courtney; Brau, Julia M.; Sugarman, Alexander; DeGutis, Joseph M.; Germine, Laura T.; Esterman, Michael; McGlinchey, Regina E.; Fortenbaugh, Francesca C. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2023
Visuospatial processing speed underlies several cognitive functions critical for successful completion of everyday tasks, including driving and walking. While it is widely accepted that visuospatial processing speed peaks in early adulthood, performance across the lifespan remains incompletely characterized. Additionally, there remains a lack of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Test Construction
Knowledge Guides Attention to Goal-Relevant Information in Older Adults
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Smith, Maverick E.; Loschky, Lester C.; Bailey, Heather R. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
How does viewers' knowledge guide their attention while they watch everyday events, how does it affect their memory, and does it change with age? Older adults have diminished episodic memory for everyday events, but intact semantic knowledge. Indeed, research suggests that older adults may rely on their semantic memory to offset impairments in…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Knowledge Level, Goal Orientation, Aging (Individuals)